The Time Machine – A Vocabulary Adventure
A vocabulary assignment the likes of which you have never heard of. A wonder of wordsmithiness, a parable of palabras (that’s spanish for ‘words’). This assignment will leave you with a better understanding of the terms in this chapter than you could ever hope for if you worked alone. And you may see yourself as working alone anyway.
Here is the drill:
Part I – The work you have to do. Look up the words, list them, chart them, graph them, draw them. However you want to satisfy the basic vocabulary assignment will be fine.
Part II – The work you have to share. Pick any three words from the list to post to this blog.
Part III – The story you have to write. Write a story using at least seven words from all of the Chapter 1 words. Show us you can use the words. Wanna use more than seven words in your story? Get extra points!!
PART I – The work you have to do.
Start with vocabulary.
Here is the list of vocabulary words for Chapter 1.
List A – (Due Friday November 3): expound, recondite, trammelo, earnest, controvert, fecundity, pensive, spasmodic, anachronism, anecdote
List B – (Due Wednesday November 8): askew, eddy, stupor, incredulous, solemnly, dimension, geometry, time, transitory, adroitBONUS – Rhetoric (This word is not in the book. Word and definition will be fine.)
The assignment requirements are the same as they ever were; in order to get an -A- on this part of the assignment, satisfy these requirements:
- Word & Part of Speech (25 pts) – You need both of these.
- Synonym, or Antonym, or Other Language (25 pts)- You need one of these. If you use an antonym, label it as such.
- Word Used in a Sentence from the Book (25 pts)- DO NOT WRITE YOUR OWN. For some terms you will find more than one sentence to use. Use the one you prefer.
- Definition (25 pts) – NOT ANY definition . . . Use the definition that matches the way it is used in the text.
PART II – The work you have to share.
Continue with a decision and sharing.
Which three words will you share with the group? You must share the entire vocabulary entry (numbers 1-4 from above).
- Students whose last names begin with the letters A – M must pick words from List A.
- Students whose last names begin with the letters N – Z must pick words from List B.
YOUR THREE WORDS MUST BE POSTED BY 11/10.
THEN, November 11 – November 13 – Visit the blog regularly.
Post to the blog any confusion you may have about words.
- Words that you are confused about, others can help you with. Accept their help.
- Ask for help. Be specific about what you need to know.
- Offer Help. Be open to help. Look at others posts about words.
PART III – The story you have to write.
Conclude with a story of your very own creation.
NOVEMBER 13 TO NOVEMEBR 15, Write a short story using 7 words from all of the Chapter 1 words.
- November 13
- Write a rough draft of a short (very shor) story.
- Your Short Story must include all PLOT elements.
- Share your story with others in school and at home: parents, friends, classmates you are not necessarily friends with at school, group members
- The story does not have to be any longer than the front of a page
- November 14 – in class grade – have your rough draft
- Proof/edit the draft in class
- Share your story with group members.
- Final Draft it tonight
- November 15
- Post your short story to the blog.
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PART I – 100 Points possible
- 100 Points – 4 of 4 requirements satisfied
- 75 Points – 3 of 4 requirements satisfied
- 50 Points – 2 of 4 requirements satisfied
- 25 Points – 1 of 4 requirements satisfied
- 0 Points – 0 of 4 requirements satisfied
PART II – 100 Points possible
- 100 Points – 3 terms have been posted and help has either been offered or taken
- 75 Points – 3 terms have been posted
- 50 Points – 2 terms have been posted
- 25 Points – 1 term has been posted
- 0 Points – 0 terms are posted
PART III – 60 Points possible
Your score here will be derived using the rubric found at the Read-Write-Think website. Go check it out, OR cut and paste the following link into another window or tab to see the rubric.
http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson116/NarrativeRubric.pdf
Mr. Moshe, I’ve not been able to access any internet this whole time. Please forgive the tardiness of this story.
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Entering the solemnly shivering cell, I quickly noticed that all the objects in the room– an old wire bed, a small night stand, and a cheap table– were askew; it looked like an old battle field between the objects. David was positively earnest despite his usual attitude to these types of things: the paranormal, a recondite matter that can only be explained through experience. The transitory drafts that seemed to come out of nowhere crawled up my spine, testing incredulous me towards the idea of this falling apart jail cell actually being haunted.
Recovering from his stupor, the raven-haired David beside me moved his glasses into a more comfortable position, whipping out his handy guide from the tour that we had just been through. I sighed, knowing that this little anecdote from his guide was but another trammel to make this whole time in the jail even longer. “And to begin Abigail’s life story,” David started, happily reading from the paper, “we shall start with…well… how about how she died?” I nodded quickly, wishing that he would be done already. “Many controvert that this Abigail was just one big nut case, dying from beating herself up so badly. Others say that Abigail was murdered by her psycho cell mate.” He scanned the guide with his index finger. “And in summation, it basically says that visitors and staff ofter hear howling screams from this cell–number 205–, which may or may not be Abigail, who died at age seventeen. It also says here that four years ago, a girl–right about Abby’s age– was found dead in this cell the day after she checked out the jail. No marks were found to clue the police in on how it all happened. It seems that this adroit spirit has its own way of revenge… for whatever re–”
I looked up from the dusty concrete floor, questioning his pause in my mind. David’s guide was now missing from his hands, and my brunette friend stared pensively at the window, hardly moving. I shook his shoulder, yelling his name. He didn’t reply; he just stared wonderingly in the direction of the window. I did soon glance into the direction, making time freeze completely for me. In the shining light from the window was a slightly swinging body from a rope mysteriously attached to the ceiling. This black image spasmodically flickered on and off in my vision, doing so faster and faster, seeming to press the “Play” button on life.
On the walls, to expound it to the best of my ability, suddenly oozed the words “I AM INNOCENT” from the cracks, covering the room completely in a confusing and jumbled pattern of (what looked like) red blood. David’s body shook in my hands, which were placed on his shoulder, frightening me even more. His now blue lips formed, “Hanged, hanged, hanged, hanged…” over and over. His eyes shifted to me, turning his head like a possessed doll. Without anything else to do, I screamed as loud as I could (by instinct) and scrambled out of that cell, tripping over my feet as I ran.
David has been missing ever since that horrid day.
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OK, so I get in geometry class, and I’m having a bad day. But it gets even worse..My teacher then told me to answer the equation on the board, so I got up. I was pensive for a moment, trying to figure out the answer. Finally I wrote down the answer I thought it was. But then my mean teacher asked me to expound on my answer, so I had to explain to everyone how I got my solution. But then everyone was looking at me wierd and started to say that they couldn’t understand my recondite solution, or they were just totally incredulous. So they began to controvert. Then, after getting annoyed because I had to explain it 2 more times, my teacher finally told me that she admired my earnestness, but my answer had been wrong the whole time, and thats why no one understood it. I felt so embarassed and just sat down. This is now, definatlly, my worst day ever.
ok its accidently sent mine as i was saying
… the RECONDITE problems to me. I became pensive, when i couldnt understand what she was talking about. I wished it was only a TRANSITORY class, so i could leave as soon as possible. Suddenly, i sprang up from my seat because it just came to me what she was talking about.Jut then the bell rang and it was TIME to leave.
my short story… sorry mr. moshe i wasnt sure where to post it!
The other day in my GEOMETRY class i had a SPASMODIC outburst. My teacher was EXPOUNING
Once again, you have brought an overwhelming feeling of pride over me. Your guardinas will be so proud of you for the effort and oneness of thought you have each put into this. Please share this Blog assignment with your guardians. Let them see what you are doing. You should be proud of yourselves.
You see, it isn’t that hard to work on vocabulary, and I don’t know about all of you, but I am having a blast reading your stories.
For the effort and creativity you have all put into this, I am awarding an extra ten points to every person who submitted according to the deadlines. Congratulations!!!!
Great job.
Mr. Moshe, I typed my story on my computer than copied and pasted it to the comment, but it didn’t show my paragraphs.
Mr.Moshe, i tried to post my story last night, but my computer wasn’t working. I was able to post it this morning, though. Here it is…
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The bell rang and I knew that it was time to start walking to my first period class, Geometry. I sat down at my desk and began to work. An eddy of thoughts went through my mind as I worked out the problems on the page that lay before me. When everyone was done working, my teacher went over the problems with us. She was making spasmodic movements while she was trying to figure out the answer to one of the hardest questions that I have ever seen. My teacher had always been the type of person that was very earnest, but there were times when she loosened up a bit and had fun.
The bell rang again and I had five minutes to get to my next class, History. As I passed by the restroom, I glanced into the mirror to make sure I looked ok. I noticed that my hair was extremely askew. After I was done fixing my hair, I turned around to go to class. To my surprise there was a little anachronism standing there, staring at me. It looked like George Washington’s head on an alien’s body. It was the weirdest thing I have ever seen. The anachronism said, “Don’t forget that you have a Geometry test today!”
The bell rang as sprung out of bed. I realized that I completely forgot about the test that I had in Geometry. I got ready as fast as I could and studied. That weird dream got me an A+ on that test.
Once upon a time,there was a machine that could transport you to the future and the pastOne day a young man named Bill became pensive.He thought of a machine and made it.Bill expounded his thought and made it into reality.Bills friends did not really recondite the use of the Time Machine.Bill showed earnest to his friends,he really wanted them to understand.The friends thought that the Time Machine was transitary.But Bill solemnly proved to them that it would last forver…
*expouding-noun to give a detailed statement of [sentence]the time traveler was expounding a recondite matter to us. [syn]answer
*anachroism-adj. an error in regard to the place of an event of a thing[sentence]our ancestors had no great tolerance for anachronisms. [syn]misdate
*trammel-noun a hindrance or impediment to free action [sentence] when thought run gracefully free of the trammels of presion. [syn] blockade
1. VOCABULARY STORYY
As I was sitting in my GEOMETRY class, solemnly thinking about my party which was on Saturday, my teacher showed us a pair of ASKEW lines on a plane. She went through the lesson in a very TRANSiTORY manner. After she finished with the lesson, she passed back the tests that we had taked last week, When she passed my test back, I stared at it iNCREDULOUS. I walked up to her and explained that I had run out of TiME and I couldn’t finish. She began CONTROVERTiNG about how everybody else seemed to have finish in the given time. I began EXPOUNDiNG about what had happened that day. I told her how my mother had gotten in a car crash after dropping me off at school. And mostly all through the test, I could only think about if she was going to be ok. The teacher appreciated my EARNESTNESS and decided that she’ll give me another chance to retake the test. Later that day I got to visit my mom at the hospital. She was Ok and nothing extremely bad had happened to her.
Askew: turned or twisted to one side
Synonym: Awry
Sentence: Ernie looked like a dork when his glasses were askew.
**Eddy: To move or cause to move like a rapid rotary current of liquid
Synonym: Swirl
Sentence: At the point in the river where the snowmelt met the main river current, an eddy formed creating a small, swirling whirlpool.
Stupor: A state of reduced or suspended sensibility.
Synonym: daze
Sentence: After hearing about my mother’s death, I was stuck in a stupor for a long time.
i couldn’ t post the story yesterday but thid id it:
Once upon a time, there was a princenamed Squiggles. He was a strict, earnes man. All the girls in the kingdom thought of him as a pensive man. Yet he was recondite, and veryshy, and quiet man. But sime men had a controversy over a crime a man claims not to have comitted, but people say he did commit it. While others say he did.. the suspect was spasmodic at the trial. But his story was an anecdote. He claims to have come from another dimension. No one believed him and he was hanged. Soon after he died they found his time machine. Everyone blamed the prince for the dicision he didn’t make. And the rince never got in the middle of a trial ever again.
!!! THE END!!!
SOMETHING WENT WRONG HERE IS THE WHOLE STORY
Today in class my teacher is going to expound about the geometry of a cube.
Most kids controvert about the subject because it is recondite to them.I am incredulous that my eacher will stop teaching the lesson. Good thing the lesson is transitory. It is boring for me because I am adroit.
Ring!!Ring!! As i just came out of a PENSIVE state ,the bell had just rung for lunch.I ran to the door and i RECONDITED what i saw. ” was it true” i said.? YES YES!!!i made the team and i suddenly had an anachronism.Me and my friends were flabbergasted as we found out we made the school Basketball team.
This was the most EARNEST thing the boy had thought. he made a SPASMODIC movement learning his wish had come true.
When the boy returned home he explained to his mom in a very EXPOUND way, why today was the best day for this little middle school boy. his mom CONTROVERTED but in a nice way and the boy lived happily ever after…. THE END BRAH BRAH
Sorry I didn’t pot this yesterday but my laptop had to be fixed because the hard-drive crashed so i couldn’t get on the computer.
Here is my story:
Today in class my teacher is goig to EXPOUND
TO CODY N. OF P.2 & KRISTEN T. OF P.6,
ANECDOTE: A SHORT ACCOUNT OF AN INTERESTING OR HUMOROUS INCIDENT.
TO USE THIS WORD IN A SENTENCE: “I represented my anecdotE (STORY) to the class, they were amused by the part with the carnies and the dancing hippos.”
THE WORD ANECDOTE IS DIFFICULT TO USE IN A SENTENCE BUT IT IS POSSIBLE…IF ANYTHING JUST ASK MR. MOSHE.
=] HAPPY TO HELP…….
“Tell everyone in the kingdom to come to a meeting.” said Eshild pensively.And later that daythe palace was getting crowded as time pass by,it seem as if the the place full with a swarm og bees.The crowd quiet down and Eshild spoke “My people I’m afraid our peace was transitory.My father will stop at nothing until he takes away all of you,which is all of you” she said earnestly.She keeps talking “We are at war,and I feel as if I have a trammelholding me back and I can do nothing to help you all.” As soon as that was said the earth shook like beating drums,while everyone look stupor abd afraid. “Prepare for battle troops!” said general Leo solemnly.And a great fight begun, swords were raised and hundreds of bloody bodies lay dead.Eshild looked at the enemy with askew.Meanwhile,leo was in a fight with the leader and was wounded.The leader recondite his sword,but leo jumped on his back like a lion and slash him with a knife.The leader pushed Leo off,about to cut Leo’s throat and out of nowhere Eshild kick him all the way to the other side of the palace.She released a burst of wind like a butterfly flapping it’s wings.Some troops retreated while others were blown away,and Eshild fall down sleeping like a baby.
One day I saw a girl sitting outside and looking solemnly at the rain. Then out of nowhere a boy came up to her. They talked for a while and then he left. ‘Why were they out there? I asked myself. It was a rhetorical question and I didn’t expect it to be answered. I was in a pensive state when there was a knock at my door. In my doorway was the girl that was with that boy. Her hair was askewed and plastered to her face. She told me all about herslef and that left me in a state of stupor. By th time i relized what we were talking about, she was on the topic of geometry. Why we were on that topic, I have no clue.
Above some were it says shnatell w, it ment to read SHANTELL WEIR
THE GRINCH
Long ago in a far, far away land there was a man named THE GRINCH. People called him this because of his facial expressions. He always had an earnest face. He never showed emotion. Until one day he became pensive about an idea he brewed up. It was to show emotion. The rumors that he was going to show emotion spread quickly. He was no longer going to walk around solemnly.
Most people were incredulous about his idea but one person did believe THE GRINCH. It was Cindy. Other kids controvert with Cindy and THE GRINCH but they both kept on believing. He said that on Wednesday he was going to show emotion.
Wednesday rolled around and that day he was very spasmodic. Everyone was waiting for THE GRINCH to show expression, especially Cindy. At exactly 9:16 in the morning he walked around school with a smile. Everyone was stupor. Cindy the believer was extremely happy for him as long with everyone else. THE GRINCH will always be remembered as the man who changed. Now he will always be called THE SMILER because he never stops smiling.
THE END
i WAS STUDYiNG A CASE FOR COURT. MY SECRETARY HANDED ME A PAPER WITH A RECONDiTE MESS SCRAMBLED ALL OVER iT. i PENSiVELY SAT AT MY DESK TRYiNG TO CONTROVERT AN ARGUEMENT. i SUDDENLY FOUND A SPAMODiC PiECE OF EViDENCE LiNKiNG MR. JONES TO THE CASE! i WAS DOiNG GREAT WHEN SUDDENLY i HiT A TRAMMEL. i JUST COULDNT GET PAST HiS ALiBi, BUT THE EARNESTNESS iNSiDE OF ME KEPT ME GOiNG. THE NEXT MORNiNG i WENT TO COURT, EXPOUNDiNG AN AMAZiNG CASE AND…WE W0N!
W0RDS USED:
1.RECONDiTE
2.PENSiVELY
3.CONTROVERT
4.SPAMODiC
5.TRAMMEL
6.EARNEST
7.EXPOUNDiNG
THE 3 W0RDS I CH00SE 2 D0 ARE..EXPOUNDiNG, RECONDiTE, AND TRAMMEL.
1. EXPOUNDiNG: TO EXPLAiN BY PRESENTiNG iN DETAiL [SENTENCE] THE TiME TRAVELER WAS EXPOUNDiNG A RECONDiTE MATTER TO US. [VERB] [ANALOGUE]
2. RECONDiTE: NOT EASiLY UNDERSTOOD [SENTENCE] THE TiME TRAVELER WAS EXPOUNDiNG A RECONDiTE MATTER TO US. [ADJECTiVE] [CONCEALED]
3. TRAMMEL: A RESTRiCTiON ON FREE ACTiViTY OR MOVEMENT [SENTENCE] THERE WAS THAT LUXERi0US AFTER-DiNNER ATMOSPHERE, WHEN THOUGHTS RUN GRACEFULLY FREE OF THE TRAMMELS OF PRECiSiON. [NOUN] [BARRiCADE]
One time,a police officer had stopped my dad and I in our car.He started to walk up to us with an earnest look on his face.My dad tried to explain it to him by expounding a recondite reason for speeding.But the officer kept controverting with him.The officer also said that the car looked like an anachronism.Finally,he took out his speedometer and my dad was in stupor!He was going 80 in a 55 mph zone,so my dad paid the ticket and we went home in time for dinner.
askeww???
minez iz da 1 rite abov i 4got 2 put p5 srry
~chanelle~
I don’t quite understand what an ‘ANECDOTE’ is. Can somebody please give me an example?
as i expounded to them the details from which i came in contact with an anachranism they all sat in a circle with me in the middle watching so earnestly to the point where an entire army coulld have marched right through the very room we sat in and not a single eye would have changed directions maybe it was the way the tale was told… maybe it was the recondite’d theme what ever the case it shadowed an almost uniform look upon all the faces in the room that uniform look lasted only up until i said i had come in contact with a time travelor from the year 802701 the night befor and that is where the cotroversey began…
My name is Jane Smith. I’m very wealthy. I’m not fecundity,so for that reason I have come back to my old middle school to volunteer. I’ve noticed how kids can be and that’s why I pensived the matter. Teens do not controvert about subjects they don’t feel are right, such as no recess after Elementary School. So, I want to teach teens that they can voice their opinon. Once,I returned to the school most of the students I taught were not as advanced. Therefore, I found myself having to expound alot of times. Though there were alot advantages to volunteering I must say I miss the feeling of getting earnest when I was an actress. However, I like getting updated on the new slang,and the way kids present themselves overall.
Vocabulary
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Word- ASWEK, adj.
Definition- Out of line.
Synonym- Crooked
Sentence- You will notice that it looks singularly ASKEW…
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Word- TRANSITORY, adj.
Definition- Existing only a short time.
Synonym- Short-lived/ Ephemeral/ Temporary
Sentence- …brightening in a quite TRANSITORY manner.
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Word- ADROIT, adj.
Definition- Skillful and great under pressuring conditions.
Synonym- Dexterous/ Deft
Sentence- …however subtly concieved and however ADROITLY done…
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Expound- to give a detailed statement of.
Trammel- a sahckle for training a horse to amble; A restriction on free activity or movement.
Controvert- To argue against or to argue about.
Anyone Need Help If So Tell Me!
The man became pensive as the young girl told him the story. As the girl gave the man an expounding, recondite side of the story, the man began to wonder is this girl guilty? The girl had to controvert the other side to make positive that she was not guilty. The girl was spasmodic when the man asked her if she had been at the club when the murder had taken place. The girl answered “All I know is that the dimension of the murder was huge!” The man stood quiet. Nobody knew the exact time it took place but it was said to be around midnight. At the end of the court session the young girl trying to be adroit accidentally confessed she committed the murder. As punishment the girl would receive many years of geometry, her worst subject.
I was walking askew of the sidewalk trying to get to my earnest grammy’s house. I was so tired it felt like I had a trammel on my leg. It felt like the time was going by so slowly and yet I was only half way there. Then I heard a noise that I could not at the moment expound. It sounded as if it was not human. It happened again and I was anxious to find out what it was. The noise was still recondite. Then out of the blue a structure popped out behind me and launcehed for my body. It grabbed me and then started to run with me in its arms. I caught a glimspe of the creature and i still could not comprehen if this speciment was from this dimension of time. I was trying to kick and punch my way free, but it was way to strong. I was running out of ideas to free my body. I had to use my noggin, but finally I pushed my way free of the creature and fell to the ground. It made that noise agai, but this time so loud that people came out of their homes. I saw it again and this time for long enough to figure out that it was definately not the human species or from this time period. It quickly skedaddled from the scene. I raced to my grammy’s house and told her everything. I was thankful to be alive. I wonder what that thing was? I guess i’ll never know, or will I?
Once upon a time, there was two cats. They were named B.C and Kitten. It was feeding time. But when Kitten arrived to the kitchen, there was no food to be found. Kitten became pensive for a moment. “Hmmm who could have eaten all the food?” She pondered. Ah Ha! It was her fat sister B.C! How stupor right? I think not. Kitten became very spasmodic, for she had not eaten in two whole days. Kitten found B.C and with an appauled look on her face asked, “Why did you eat all the food?” B.C tried to be adroit and answered in an expounding matter. Earnestly, she responded “A fat cats gotta do what a fat cats gotta do!”
***THE END***
While Ms.Chester expounded the difficult math problem to us I drifted off into my own little world. I went past the trammels that held me to reality. I knew that I had to focus because I was doing bad in math as it is and daydreaming during math was not going to help my grade. Against my conciousness’ will I gave in to the temptation. Suddenly the bell rang signaling the end of school. After I arrived home I found myself looking at the recondite matter that presented it self before me in my textbook. My fecundity was absolutely zero because I could not do a single thing without knowing how to do it. I looked at the time only to find that I was way behind my usual schedule. I took a transitory look at the explanation that the book gave me and did the problems as the book told me to do so. Hopefully my geometry teacher wouldn’t notice that I just wrote numbers and variables and mathematical signs instead of actually doing the work.
Mom, let’s go to the movies it’s about to start soon I shouted in SPASMODIC motion. She CONTROVERTED “I’m coming!” we both scattered to the door and got into the car I checked the time, we were 5 minutes late, but later I noticed the time was ANACHRONISM I gasped,as a load was relieved off my shoulder. We showed up at the mall my mom PENSIVELY looking for the movies as she finds the booth we show up asking for Saw3 tickets. While we’re getting our ticket’s the guy say’s Rated R need ID at first it was RECONDITE but after we understood. The movie was TRAMMEL as of the reason, the guy needed ID we we’re EARNEST as we came in, the movie started and was awesome plus loads of suspense. ;0
Once upon the time there was a football team that played very solemnly against some of the most recondite teams in their division but struggled outside of their confert zones.Their best player was Chester Taylor,but one day th worst thing happened ,all of the sudden he broke out into spasmodic movements and was out for the season.The team had this controversy on who should start.Time was running out,they made an incredulous decision that nobody thought they would.They started a thrid-string player who had no dimension to his game!The team later went on to go undefeated and the thrid-string player had an m.v.p. season.If you might not have known this team was th ’72 Miami Dolphins.
The time traveller sat on the curb wondering how RECONDITE his problem was. For some reason the time machine he built was not working. He was approached by the mayor who had an EARNEST face on. The mayor attempted to start a conversation but the time traveller was far to PENSIVE to listen. The mayor doing his best to be humorous commented on the problem in a form of an ANECDOTE. He continued SPASMODICALLY trying to get the time traveller to talk but his best efforts failed. The time traveller finally figured out what the problem was, one of the iron bars was one inch to short, which he EXPOUNDED to the mayor right before dashing off back into his house. His CONTROVERTION of time and space shall come into reality and was only one step away, at last time travel shall be possible.
I dont really understand the word trammel.What does it really mean?
three words
controvert-to dispute
I shall have cotrovert one or two ideas that are most universally accepted.
recondite-difficult or impossible for one ordinary understanding to comprehend
The Time Traveller was expounding a recondite matter.
time-the measurable period at which an action exists or continues.
Do you seriously believe that that machine has travelled into time?
Yeah! Thanksgiving is over. After all that TIME waiting Christmas is finally here.
Everybody was SPASMODIC. The malls were filled with shoppers. The parents were making eggnog and the kids were writnig their letters to Santa. Everybody was happy; Well almost everybody. Tommy a very naughty little kid got especially naughty around this time of year. He would be rude and disrespectful to his perky GEOMETRY teacher. He would also make mischievious ADROIT plans to scare shoppers away and steal al their gifts. His mom thought that he behaved that way because he had recently found out that Santa wasn’t real. His parents decided to take him to a psychologist to talk about this EXPOUNDING RECONDITE matter. He was INCREDOLOUS about the whole “Santa not being real” thing that he neglected going.
His parents finally convinced him to go and the problem was solved. Tommy sweared never to scare the shoppers away but the situation with his geometry teacher… well that’s a whole other story.
I am sorry Mr. Moshe in the 7th line instead of ecover it should say recover. My finger just missed the key.
This is my story
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As the man EXPOUNDED his very detailing story to us I felt trapped. He said certain words that really caught my attention, and gave me a full grip on the story. I was very PENSIVE about my situation. More often than not the man would use very SPASDOMIC voices to really put emphasis on what he would try to point out. The man, at times, could be a little scary as well as ASKEW. However I felt he was okay. After leaving he would normally leave me and some of my fellow peers in STUPOR, which took me long after to ecover. Sadly, his period of time with me was and will always be very TRANSITORY. The very EARNEST and energetic man’s name is Mr. Moshe.
Here is my story, I used about 13 vocab words……
William and the Time Machine
Somewhere in a world where we obviously don’t know about, there was a boy named William. His friends and family knew him very well for what you would call a “genius”. William wanted to create a TIME machine. This is because he believed that there is a 4th DIMENSION in the world. So he went into his laboratory and started to build.
A while later William was done with his experiment of the time machine. He went quickly to tell his friends about his invention and to come in a TRANSITORY manner. They all came in and sat down and the machine left them all INCREDULOUS. For his friends thought of it as a RECONDITE matter. They all became PENSIVE thinking to themselves, how could this be, a machine that takes you in the present time as well as the future? They had nothing to do but to CONTROVERT and ask questions, of course. The next day, William went to school. Everyone around the school was talking about the time machine. The teachers couldn’t believe that a normal sophmore student could create an invention that even the most experienced scientist couldn’t make. While William was in his GEOMETRY class, he got called up to the office by two of one of the smartest, ADROIT scientist known to man. They wanted William to introduce them to this so-called “Time Machine” and give an EXPOUNDing explanantion of it. He did so and they too were INCREDULOUS for they could not believe there eyes. One was in a STUPOR state of mind and the other was making SPASMODIC treks through the laboratory.”Young man”, the scientist continued,”do you know that this time machine you created is going to possibly change the world forever?” The boy responded with a yes and the second scientist added,”This time machine is merely a matter of ANACHRONISM!” William was very glad of his accomplishments and knew that starting from that day, his life would also change forever.
3 Vocabulary Words
Geometry[n.]
A type of Math.
The geometry they taught you in school is a missconception geometry.
subject
Solemnly[adj.]
Deeply earnest.
And he winked at me solemnly.
sad
Dimension[n.]
The measure of spatial extent
There is actually a 4th dimension.
depth
“THE UNICORNS ARE GOING TO EAT YOU!!” Kira said loudly, waking form her stupor. her classmates looked back at her with confused and amused faces on.”uh-oh” she said to herself as the teacher glared daggers at her.”Kira!’The teacher growled out.Kira often dosed in and out of her own reality. Looking at the chalk board she saw many different shapes with the word dimensions over it. The teacher eased her harsh glare as kira blinked and smiled. The teacher sighedand continued expounding the recondite word. Kira looked down at her notebook and found a note.She opened it clamy and read it to herself. it read: Kira, your such a spasomadic ditz! Kira growled loudly, her eye twitching. “IM NOT A SPASOMADIC DITZ YOU R-TARD!” the teacher stopped her lesson once again and glared at kira.”get out.” the teacher said with earnesty laced in her fierce gaze.”you always start controversyin my class, Im tired of it.Go to room 409.Kira crumble dup the note and and threw it at the boy who had wrote it to her as she left the room. “I hate that class anyway” she said as she skipped to the room, the teacher didnt know that her best friend was in that class and he was more of a spazz then she was.
~THE END~ ^.^
As we sat in boredom Rinel tried to figure out how to EXPOUND why she dosen’t have her homework.Mr.Moshe stared at her blankly and said “were waiting”.When Rinel finally explained it was very RECONDITE it was so recondite even Mr.MOshe was confused. Mr.Moshe had a wierd look on his face so a voice came from the back of the class it was Alex the class clown he loves to CONTROVERT arguments about what people say or do.Alex asked Mr.Moshe if he was okay or if he was constipated.Everyone laughed and laughed and then Alex started to ask Rinel if she just made up her explanation on the spot because he could not comprehend anything and that to him it sounded like a bunch of malarchy.Mr.Moshe told Alex to mind his own busieness.Katherine raised her hand and said “can i ask alex a question please it really needs to be asked” “What is that” Mr.Moshe said.Katherine said to Alex do you even know what malarchy means” Alex looked very angry because she questioned his intellegence yet again.At the same time everyone laughed about the way Kathrine said it.Tory leaned over to me and said this is an ANECDOTE moment isn’t it do you know what that means i told him yes i do.Mr.Moshe got very irritated because Know one was listening to him so he started to yell. When he was finished he said lets start the ANACHRONISMS of our former presidents.Alex went up first and asked us some questions to try and guess who his president is Amanda became very pensive to the point were everyone started to ask if she was okay. Finally her face came back to normal and she answered the questions correctly. Then everyone started to tell her how they thought she was having a segture.Then the bell rang to go to sixth hour.Amanda and Gina left the classroom talking about how fast the time went by.
1)Askew-With disapproval, scorn, contempt.
Synonym-Askance
Used in sentence- You will notice that it looks singularly askew.
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2)Eddy-A small whirlpool.
Synonym-erupt.
Used in sentence-One of the candles on the mantel was blown out, and the little machine suddenly swung round, became
indistinct, was seen as a ghost for a second perhaps, as an eddy of
faintly glittering brass and ivory; and it was gone–vanished!
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3)Stupor-Suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc.
Synonym-amazement
Used in sentence-The Psychologist recovered from his stupor, and suddenly looked under the table
susanah from per. 6. i loved your story. it was a little long but it was really good. i didnt know you could write like that. I felt so bad for the girl.
*Vocabulary Story*
“I don’t understand this at all”,raged Matthew about his math homework.The problem he was working on was a very {recondite} one indeed.So much so that even his own mother couldn’t {expound} to him the answer.Even she,one who took calculus in college,looked at the problems in a {stupor}.She looked off in the distance in a {pensive} sort of way.Her thoughts were {askew},and came {spasmodicly}.”Aha!” exclaimed Matthew suddenly,”I get it!”.His mother was very {incredulous} and when she checked the the work in the back of the book,she found that he had got it right.The student had supassed the master.
Once there lived a very recondite little girl. She was unlike the rest, taking everything very seriously. Most people took life as a joke and just fooled around, but she was different. At a very young age she did everything solemnly and became pensive in everything that stumbled her. By the time she was a teen, many thought that she was an anachronism, belonging to a time much more complicated than their own. Everything stated or expounded was done so adroitly. Even the most simple questions were elaborately answered. She was never wrong and never met anyone smarter than her, but knows that there are people who are better than she is and smarter than she is.
One day, she answered a question in her elaborate way and the teacher – as the students too- was shocked at her incorrect answer. Not knowing she was wrong, she had no idea for the reason of the silence. When she finally noticed that everyone thought she was wrong, she controverted their thinking of it, and she proved herself correct. During the transitory moment of her logical reasoning the students were in an incredulous stupor of her once again, being correct.